Erin Elizabeth Smith is the author of The Fear of Being Found (Three Candles Press 2008) and The Naming of Strays (Gold Wake Press 2011). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Mid-American, 32 Poems, New Delta Review, Water~Stone, Cimarron Review, and Crab Orchard Review. She teaches creative writing and literature in the English Department at the University of Tennessee and serves as the managing editor of Sundress Publications.